Senior Software Engineer, Backend

At Evolve, we’re on a mission to make vacation rental easy for everyone. Our high-performing, customer-obsessed team runs on curiosity, communication, and accountability—working together to create exceptional experiences for our owners and guests. Whether solving big challenges, delivering outstanding results, or celebrating wins, we approach every day with purpose and passion. If you’re ready to join a mission-driven company where every teammate has the opportunity to thrive, Evolve might just be the place for you.

Why this role

We’re looking for a creative and highly motivated Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our backend team to help us build, innovate, and maintain our integrations with our distribution partners. In this role you will help plan and execute special projects while supporting ongoing cross-functional operations. Whether a bug fix or an awesome feature, you will own your work and deliver the most effective and scalable solutions. You will work closely with our Product Team and other cross-functional development teams to design and implement world class solutions.

The ideal candidate for this role is technically savvy, analytical, and process-oriented. You must anticipate and embrace the challenge of solving critical business problems in a fast-paced environment. We’re looking for someone who is a self-starter, willing to perform a variety of responsibilities and experienced working with cross-functional teams. This role is a technical leader that drives operational excellence on the team, enables teammates, and enhances the team holistically. This is a fantastic opportunity to get involved in the hospitality industry and have an immediate and meaningful impact.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain our APIs and integrations with upstream and downstream consumers in mind
• Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in backend development tools and technologies
• Lead ecosystem-level design reviews, perform architecture reviews, and write technical documentation in collaboration with peers
• Drive improvements to system reliability, observability, monitoring, and testability
• Work directly with an Engineering Manager and Product Manager(s) to clearly understand the problem being solved
• Collaborate with stakeholders from internal operations teams as well as external integration partners
• Effectively debug high complexity multi-system problems and come up with good-better-best solutions
• Execute on engineering and release priorities successfully through strong leadership and communication
• Drive code reviews and collaborate with other team members on coding standards and best practices, third-party integrations, and other backend development processes
• Guide and mentor less experienced developers on best practices and operational excellence

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 5+ years of backend development experience building applications in Go, NodeJS, and integrations with 3rd Party tools, APIs, and other services
• Experience with designing and documenting architecture decisions
• Experience with AWS services such as Kubernetes, Lambdas, Eventbridge, RDS, DynamoDB
• Experience with IaC e.g. Terraform, and have collaborated with DevOps to maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines
• Solid software engineering fundamentals and committed to mentoring less experienced engineers
• Independent and proactive at finding and fixing issues
• Excellent giver and receiver of constructive code review feedback
• Experience with Agile development process
• You have a knack for finding solutions to problems - and using a full arsenal of debugging tools
• You have built your own custom tools to help you automate tasks
• Experience with Git version control and repository management in Gitlab

Location

Evolve has a flexible working environment so teammates can work remotely anywhere in the state of Colorado, in our beautiful downtown Denver office, remotely or a hybrid of both!

Compensation

For this role our salary range is $141,000 to $184,000, depending on relevant experience. This role will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance.

Location

All Evolve team members must live in one of our approved locations by their first day. We can hire from anywhere in the U.S. except D.C. and Hawaii. Some positions may also have restrictions based on compensation in the following states: California, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington. If you live in Colorado, you can work remotely anywhere in the state, at our downtown Denver office, or a hybrid of both! If you're planning to move soon, please let us know, and we'll be happy to review your application again.

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How We Reward Evolvers

We’re intentional about offering benefits that empower every Evolver to thrive both professionally and personally because they’re more than perks—they’re investments in our customer-obsessed, high-performing team.

We believe in treating others as they want to be treated, providing benefits that deliver real value, and challenging the status quo to meet the diverse needs of our team. Whether it’s helping you take care of your health, plan for the future, or celebrate life’s milestones, our offerings are designed to support you every step of the way.

• Financial Wellness: Industry-competitive pay, equity in the company, and a 401(k) with a 4% immediate vesting match.
• Family Support: 16-18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents, plus infertility coverage.
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans (100% employer-paid for individual enrollment), 10 free mental health visits, and pet insurance.
• Time to Recharge: Generous PTO, RTO (for full-time exempt employees), sick leave, holidays, and a personal holiday to celebrate what matters most to you.
• Travel Perks: Annual Evolve travel credit after one year and discounts on stays at all Evolve properties.
• Growth Opportunities: World-class onboarding programs, learning, and development resources to help you grow your impact.
• Connection: Employee Resource Groups celebrating our diverse communities at Evolve.

How We Work Together

With our core values as our guide, every Evolver helps shape the company we want to work for and the people we want to be. We’ve cultivated a culture of collaboration, care, and responsibility that we can all be proud of, and we’re excited to see what you’ll bring as your authentic self.

Still curious about who we are and what we do? Read more about our business and our culture at evolve.com.

EEO

At Evolve, we are committed to diversity and inclusion. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified candidates will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military service or veteran status, physical or mental disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Evolve participates in e-Verify for all positions.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation at any point in the hiring process, please let your recruiter know.